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A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money. It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue. My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked. All children are essentially criminal. A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic. Thank God kids never mean well. It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. Lactomangulation, n.: No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend. My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. Shut up he explained. Being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tranquility that religion is powerless to bestow. Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The family is a court of justice which never shuts down for night or day. Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it. The graveyards are full of indispensable men. Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you find the real tinsel underneath. Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation. The Hollywood tradition I like best is called "sucking up to the stars." "Hello," he lied. However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my traditional manner ... sulking and nausea. Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness. MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts. Alas, I am dying beyond my means. If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it. Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness. I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing the other patients. One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness. Once the people begin to reason, all is lost. If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be - a Christian. It is well to write love letters. There are certain things for which it is not easy to ask your mistress face to face, like money for instance. He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser. Beware of the man whose God is in the skies. George Washington as a boy was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth - he could not even lie. Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. In San Francisco, Haloween is redundant. There are two million interesting people in New York and only seventy-eight in Los Angles. The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality. We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys. A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be led by the nose. The only man, woman, or child who ever wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical errors is dead. Harding was not a bad man, he was just a slob. Ronald Reagan is the most ignorant president since Warren Harding. A bore is a fellow talking who can change the subject back to his topic of conversation faster than you can change it back to yours. Cleaning anything involves making something else dirty, but anything can get dirty without something else getting clean. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next. You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice. |
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